If you haven't been camping lately, you might be in for a shock. On top of the private amenities that many campers transfer from indoors to the "great" outdoors, they now expect wi-fi at camping locations. indy | via View full entry
Now during prime time: "Anyone can step up to a kiosk in Colombia's capital and record a message on any subject to be aired on TV." Simple, pointed, and satisfying, it seems like we could all use an effective outlet that would cut past the bull. View full entry
Disaster relief housing draws designers but do their ideas fit the people? The SFGate explores the innovation behind these models, why they generally remain stuck as mere prototypes, and other contexts of "community connectedness" they must address in order to become more feasible in the future... View full entry
Come Saturday it will look as if a tornado had picked up a Prada store and dropped it on a desolate strip of U.S. 90 in West Texas. That is where Prada Marfa, a permanent sculpture by the Berlin artists Michael Elmgreen and Ingar Dragset will be installed. NYT | via View full entry
"A Swedish town is preparing to become the first to adopt a radical new form of environmentally friendly funeral. Invented by ecologists keen to connect funerals with the organic environment, the process sees bodies frozen in liquid nitrogen, then broken into dust." BBC | learn more about... View full entry
For reasons spelled out below, the poet Sharon Olds has declined to attend the National Book Festival in Washington, which, coincidentally or not, takes place September 24, the day of an antiwar mobilization in the capital. Olds, winner of a National Book Critics Circle Award and professor of... View full entry
Mike Davis and Anthony Fontenot team up for Mother Jones in this article with Twenty-five Questions about the Murder of the Big Easy. Indeed, the most toxic debris in New Orleans isn't the sinister gray sludge that coats the streets of the historic Creole neighborhood of Treme or the Lower Ninth... View full entry
The team led by Tsunemi Kubodera, from the National Science Museum in Tokyo, tracked the 26-foot long Architeuthis as it attacked prey nearly 3,000 feet deep off the coast of Japan's Bonin islands. Read View full entry
A 27-year-old University Engineering PhD student has won a national award and widespread acclaim for an innovation which could help farmers in the developing world irrigate their crops. University of Cambridge Press Office View full entry
Last weekend, Artivistic/05 - a transdisciplinary event on the interPlay between art/information/activism asked the question, "Why is activism associated with the street?" through critical action/reflection on issues of public vs. private space, borders, boundaries, psychogeography, mobility... View full entry
More than 500 people in prison during Katrina flooding are still unaccounted for. Democracy now conducted an indepth interview reavealing some of the atrocious stories including prisoners who were "farmed out to different prisons, and women as well, hundreds, who were brought from the jail to... View full entry
Many Contracts for Storm Work Raise Questions | The End Times and Profits of Doom, or, Halliburton's quiet killing... | Deficit disaster looms, Reconstruction spending diverts attention from crisis | Disasters and governance by Jon Lebkowsky | To rebuild after a hurricane, be an architect of... View full entry
Foreign Policy and Prospect Magazine have complied a list of the worlds top 100 public intellectuals. Rem Koolhaas rounds out the list as its only architectual representative. Vote for your top 5. View full entry
Andrea Zittel 's Escape Vehicles are classics of mobile lifestyle art, and for the last five years, she has forged new territory in her A-Z West compound. | nytimes View full entry
The race is on to build the first "space elevator' - long dismissed as science fiction - to carry people and materials into orbit along a carbon-nanotube cable thousands of miles long. Read | prev View full entry